Every Little Bit Helps
It’s easy to feel powerless and helpless when confronted with enormous problems—including poverty, pain, and environmental harm. It may be tempting to fold our hands in defeat and say that it appears like a problem for someone richer or more powerful than us to fix.
This hero, on the other hand, demonstrates that everyone can make a difference. It doesn’t have to be some huge gesture you perform all at once. He planted one tree after another over several years until he had a forest. What little things might we do one at a time, seemingly insignificant at first but which will eventually become a flourishing ecosystem of good deeds?